German police arrested an Syrian ISIS suspect, planning attack on football match

German special forces have arrested a Syrian suspected of being a member of the Isis group, local authorities said Tuesday, citing a threat to the opening game of the upcoming Bundesliga football championships.
“There are indications that something is being planned for the start of the Bundesliga season,” a spokesman for the interior ministry of Rhineland-Palatinate told AFP.

The 24-year-old man was arrested on Friday in Mutterstadt, a city in the western state, before investigators raided a flat in Duisburg, some 300 kilometres northwest in North Rhine-Westphalia state.

The interior ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia said there was “no concrete threat” but a witness had alerted the authorities to a planned Islamist attack.

The suspect, an asylum seeker from Syria, arrived in Germany at the start of the year and has been living in North Rhine-Westphalia, according to Germany’s department for distributing refugees around the country, cited by the Südwestrundfunk channel.

Numerous photos of fighting in Syria were found on his phone and computer, the Südwestrundfunk report said, though it was not clear if he had taken them himself or downloaded them.

Source: /The Local